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Everyone Wants to Build U.S. Battery Plants
Hyundai and BMW have joined a wave of overseas automakers looking to beef up their battery manufacturing here in the U.S., China’s car industry is making waves in Russia as other companies pull out, and Mercedes has opened its first EV-only dealership. All this and more in The Morning Shift [...]
Subaru Solterra Entered The US Market
Subaru is opening a new chapter in the US with the market launch of the all-electric Solterra model (a cousin of the Toyota bZ4X). In November the company delivered the first 94 Subaru Solterra to customers and those are the first ever all-electric cars for the Japanese brand in the [...]
Mercedes-Benz Doubled All-Electric Car Sales In Q3 2022
Mercedes-Benz Cars reports 520,100 global car sales during the third quarter of 2022, which is 20% more than a year ago. The number includes 517,800 Mercedes-Benz Passenger Cars (up 21%) and a small number of vans. The German manufacturer clearly is recovering from the weaker first part of the year. [...]
Your new Volvo EX90 gives you the info you need – when you need it
The Volvo EX90 is packed with information that can help give you a more enjoyable, less stressful driving experience. Head-up displays are valuable for keeping your eyes on the road – especially for new drivers, who sometimes find it difficult to keep track of everything happening around them. The Volvo [...]
Plug-In Car Sales In China Surged 78% In September 2022
The Chinese passenger car market noted another positive month with a 10% year-over-year increase in sales in September. Meanwhile, the plug-in electric car segment is booming, reaching a new record level and taking more than a third of the total market. According to EV Volumes' data, shared by Jose Pontes, [...]
GMC Sierra Denali EV Edition 1 Sold Out In Less Than 24 Hours
The $108,695 GMC Sierra Denali EV Edition 1 is officially sold out. The range-topping version of the Sierra EV could be reserved with a fully refundable deposit of just $100 so it doesn't come as too much of a surprise that allocations are now full. Those still interested in reserving [...]
Lincoln Asking Dealers To Invest Up To $900,000
Lincoln dealers need to invest $900,000 on chargers and other upgrades if they want to sell the brand's upcoming electric vehicles. That's more than quadruple what rival Cadillac is mandating from its dealers, Automotive News reports, with the requirement mainly covering the costs of installing EV chargers for public use [...]
Tesla Model Y Sales Skyrocketing
When the Tesla Model Y first came to market, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said it would be the electric automaker's best-selling vehicle going forward. This may have been hard for some people to believe since it was really just an inflated Model 3, and quite pricey. That said, it began [...]
Tesla’s Market Share Improved
During the third quarter of this year, Tesla once again expanded its market share, reaching new record levels, although the growth rate slowed down. According to the industry data (trailing twelve months), Tesla's market share in the US/Canada (counted together) appears to be somewhere around 3.3% and is moving toward [...]
BMW To Move MINI EV Production From UK To China
BMW Group will reportedly stop making electric MINIs in the United Kingdom by the end of 2023 and move production to China once the next-generation Cooper SE model launches. The German automaker has decided to make electric hatchbacks and a small electric crossover in China through its Spotlight Automotive Limited joint venture [...]
New Jeep Avenger EV Debuts In Paris
If you live in the United States you won’t be able to get one, but if you live in Europe, South America or Japan, then you will soon be able to order the new Jeep Avenger, the company’s smallest offering, which will slot in below the Renegade. It’s going to [...]
This country plans to put 2 million electric motorcycles on the road in the next 3 years
Unlike electric cars with their high prices and large footprints (both geometric and carbon footprints), electric motorcycles represent some of the smallest and most affordable electric vehicles on the planet. That’s why many countries are eschewing popular electric cars in favor of two-wheeled EVs. While Europeans have embraced motorcycles and [...]
Toyota ramping up bZ4X SUV production to compete in swelling EV market
Is the world’s largest automaker finally responding to the rapidly changing auto industry? Toyota is now considering ramping up production of its first 100% electric mass-market vehicle, the bZ4X SUV, but not until 2025, according to sources familiar with the plans. Earlier this week, Reuters released that Toyota is considering [...]
Mercedes-Benz recalls E-, CLS-Class to bolt down battery
Mercedes-Benz is recalling just under 20,000 examples of the CLS-Class Coupe and E-Class Sedan to inspect the anchoring systems for their 12-volt batteries. Located in the trunk, the batteries can come free in a collision, removing the power source for various safety systems. Mercedes says this problem impacts the 2019-2022 [...]
Norway: Plug-In Car Sales Declined By 21% In September 2022
New passenger car sales in Norway relentlessly decrease. In September, the number of registrations amounted to 14,646 (down almost 19% year-over-year). That brought the year-to-date number to 102,761 (down 20.3%). The bad news is that plug-in electric car sales not only also decreased, but decreased even a bit faster than [...]
Why are electric vehicles so expensive?
There are many factors at play in the pricing of electric vehicles these days. Supply chains, assembly lines, and R&D can all play some part in the MSRP of an electric vehicle before its first sale. Probably the most notable factor today is the cost of batteries. Battery packs are [...]
The Hyundai Ioniq 6 – Electric Car Designed For Nerds
After driving a bunch of electric cars, you notice a throughline. They tend to drive pretty similarly, and it’s hard to find defining driving characteristics between them, says Aaron Brown for RT. That’s particularly true for the new Ioniq 6, built on Hyundai’s Electric Global Modular Platform (E-GMP). It drives [...]
XPeng Electric Car Sales Decreased In September 2022
XPeng electric car sales surprisingly decreased in September, after a long period of uninterrupted growth - even during Chinese lockdowns. Last month, XPeng delivered 8,468 electric cars, which is 19% less than a year ago, and just over half of what the company achieved in peak months (15,000-16,000). The overwhelming [...]